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UVA Radiology Keynote Lecture Series: Mental Health Advocacy in Medicine

UVA Radiology Keynote Lecture Series: Mental Health Advocacy in Medicine

Presented by the UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging:

Keynote Lecture Series: J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, and Taison Bell, MD

On April 26, 2020, in the midst of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Dr. Lorna Breen, director of emergency medicine at Allen Hospital in New York City, died by suicide. Her death started a national conversation about the stresses and risks disproportionately placed on physicians and care providers during this challenging pandemic time.

To honor Lorna’s memory and start the hard work of addressing physician burnout, Jennifer Breen Feist and J. Corey Feist, Lorna’s sister and brother-in-law, started the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. During this Keynote Lecture, Corey, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the UVA Physicians Group, will share Lorna’s story and talk about the critical need to address physician burnout as well as the culture and stigma around stress, burnout and mental health in the medical field. He will also speak about the Foundation’s work introducing legislation that aims to reduce and prevent suicide, burnout, and mental and behavioral health conditions among health care professionals.

Corey Feist will be joined by Taison Bell, MD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UVA. Dr. Bell is the Director of the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at UVA Health and was recently recognized as one of the “30 Leaders Under 40 Changing Healthcare” by Business Insider. Besides treating patients in UVA’s COVID-19 units during the pandemic, Dr. Bell was also instrumental in bringing a clinical trial of remdesivir – now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a COVID-19 treatment – to UVA. He will speak about honoring and acknowledging the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the demands our society places on our care providers to keep people safe while the world is falling apart.

Learn more or register for this series, which will be presented via WebEx, here.

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20201209 8:00 pm 20201209 America/New_York UVA Radiology Keynote Lecture Series: Mental Health Advocacy in Medicine December 09, 2020
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Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging

Presented by the UVA Department of Radiology and Medical Imaging:

Keynote Lecture Series: J. Corey Feist, JD, MBA, and Taison Bell, MD

On April 26, 2020, in the midst of the darkest days of the COVID-19 pandemic in New York City, Dr. Lorna Breen, director of emergency medicine at Allen Hospital in New York City, died by suicide. Her death started a national conversation about the stresses and risks disproportionately placed on physicians and care providers during this challenging pandemic time.

To honor Lorna’s memory and start the hard work of addressing physician burnout, Jennifer Breen Feist and J. Corey Feist, Lorna’s sister and brother-in-law, started the Dr. Lorna Breen Heroes’ Foundation. During this Keynote Lecture, Corey, who is also the Chief Executive Officer of the UVA Physicians Group, will share Lorna’s story and talk about the critical need to address physician burnout as well as the culture and stigma around stress, burnout and mental health in the medical field. He will also speak about the Foundation’s work introducing legislation that aims to reduce and prevent suicide, burnout, and mental and behavioral health conditions among health care professionals.

Corey Feist will be joined by Taison Bell, MD, an Assistant Professor of Medicine in the divisions of Infectious Diseases and International Health and Pulmonary and Critical Care Medicine at UVA. Dr. Bell is the Director of the medical intensive care unit (ICU) at UVA Health and was recently recognized as one of the “30 Leaders Under 40 Changing Healthcare” by Business Insider. Besides treating patients in UVA’s COVID-19 units during the pandemic, Dr. Bell was also instrumental in bringing a clinical trial of remdesivir – now approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a COVID-19 treatment – to UVA. He will speak about honoring and acknowledging the heroic efforts of our healthcare workers during the COVID-19 pandemic, and the demands our society places on our care providers to keep people safe while the world is falling apart.

Learn more or register for this series, which will be presented via WebEx, here.